Renal angiomyolipoma-investigating radiological signs indicative of risk for bleeding by Jesper Swärd, Karl Bohlin, Olof Henrikson, Sven Lundstam, Ralph Peeker, Anna Grenabo Bergdahl

“…Abstract Objectives To compare imaging differences between bleeding and non-bleeding angiomyolipoma with respect to the proportion and attenuation of the angiomyogenic component and the occurrence and size of aneurysms. …”
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Cropping system is a key determinant of soil health after accounting for environmental and edaphic variability by Franky Celestin, Gabriel Maltais-Landry, Jose C.B. Dubeux, Rao S. Mylavarapu, Yang Lin

“…The effects of cropping system on soil health indicators remained statistically meaningful after propensity score weighting using the same significance threshold (α = 0.05). Soil organic matter and carbon-related indicators were consistently higher in grazed pastures than in row crop systems, indicating that differences in disturbance and management intensity across cropping systems regulated soil health. …”
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Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of a Large Isoniazid-Resistant Tuberculosis Outbreak in London: A Retrospective Observational Study. by Nicola Casali, Agnieszka Broda, Simon R Harris, Julian Parkhill, Timothy Brown, Francis Drobniewski

“…Eleven longitudinal pairs of patient pulmonary isolates collected up to 48 mo apart differed from each other by between zero and four SNPs. …”
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Informant accuracy of IQCODE, AD8 and GPCOGi for diagnosis of dementia: does your friend know best? by Jasmine Chingono, Samuel Thomas Creavin, Mark Fish, Sarah Cullum, Antony Bayer, Sarah Purdy, Yoav Ben-Shlomo

“…We found no evidence of difference between spouse or adult descendants but friends performed significantly better overall on IQCODE and AD8.…”
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Study on climatic quality evaluation technology of Dali Dongzao in Shaanxi based on meteorological factors by SHEN Jiaojiao, DANG Chaoqi, ZHANG Yuefan, GUO Qi, WANG Jingzhong

“…At the same time, the threshold ranges of four different grades of key meteorological assessment indicators were graded by the percentile method. …”
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The effect of language typology on the students’ writing skills: A case of the undergraduate students of Arabic language and literature at Arak University by Tahereh Khanabadi, Isa Motaghizadeh, Hayat Ameri, hadi nazarimonazam

“…This effect was higher in specific components with the obtained value of 76.7% than in different components with the value of 48.3%. As for the common components, with the obtained value of 4.6%, and based on covariance analysis, the mentioned teaching method was not effective in improving the students' progress in understanding and applying this component. …”
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Propagation dynamics for an epidemic patch model with variable incubation period by Zhaoquan Xu, Tianwei Tan, Cheng-Hsiung Hsu

“…Then, applying the truncation method and limiting arguments, we can obtain threshold propagation dynamics of the epidemic model. …”
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De-noising algorithms for the raised cosine pulse signal using the minimum-energy frame in the discrete signal space by Ying-hai XIE, Wei YANG, Ting-ting FAN

“…The de-noising algorithms were proposed for the raised cosine pulse signal using minimum-energy(wavelet) frame in the discrete signal space.For the given two minimum-energy frames,the decomposition coefficients of sampled sequence appeared significant statistical characteristics difference between the raised cosine pulse signal and additive Gaussian noise under the frames’sub-sequences.Based on this,two threshold de-noising algorithms were provided to makes full use of the merit that the frame was fit for the de-noising work,they removed partial noise component while keeping the component of original signal and got effic nt de-noising result.The simulation results show that,when the modulating method is BPSK and its raised cosine pulse signal is polluted by the additive Gaussian noise,then if add a pre-processing link to denoise the receiving waveform using the algorithms,the receiver can greatly increase the signal-to-noise ratio of receiving signal and have about 3.1dB and 2.7dB performance gain of bit error ratio,respectively.…”
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How Do We Teach the Skills and Values in Social Sciences and History Courses? by Neşet Mutlu, Mustafa Öztürk

“…According to the findings of this investigation, major part of the high school students enrolled in the investigation were determined to be in risk group and threshold group in terms of internet addiction. Statistically significant difference between withdrawal, controlling difficulty, disorder in functionality and social isolation points regarding internet addiction was determined depending on daily internet usage duration. …”
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De-noising algorithms for the raised cosine pulse signal using the minimum-energy frame in the discrete signal space by Ying-hai XIE, Wei YANG, Ting-ting FAN

“…The de-noising algorithms were proposed for the raised cosine pulse signal using minimum-energy(wavelet) frame in the discrete signal space.For the given two minimum-energy frames,the decomposition coefficients of sampled sequence appeared significant statistical characteristics difference between the raised cosine pulse signal and additive Gaussian noise under the frames’sub-sequences.Based on this,two threshold de-noising algorithms were provided to makes full use of the merit that the frame was fit for the de-noising work,they removed partial noise component while keeping the component of original signal and got effic nt de-noising result.The simulation results show that,when the modulating method is BPSK and its raised cosine pulse signal is polluted by the additive Gaussian noise,then if add a pre-processing link to denoise the receiving waveform using the algorithms,the receiver can greatly increase the signal-to-noise ratio of receiving signal and have about 3.1dB and 2.7dB performance gain of bit error ratio,respectively.…”
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Evaluation of ocular and cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials in a conductive hearing loss model by Peng Han, Rui Zhang, Zichen Chen, Ying Gao, Ying Cheng, Qing Zhang, Min Xu

“…Similarly, cVEMPs following simulated CHL also showed decreased response rate, elevated thresholds and attenuated amplitudes, with prolonged P1 latencies compared with those before simulated CHL, although only differences in response rate, threshold and amplitude were significant. …”
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Clinical characteristics of patients with pulsatile tinnitus accompanied by ethmoid sinus lesions and high jugular bulb by Hongwei Zhu, Zhimin Zhu, Zheng Wang, Xin Zhou, Luying Yang, Xiaoqing Yin, Jiwei Hao, Lu Wang, Yijie Cui, Zeyan Cui, Xiaomeng Fan, Zhiqiang Zhou

“…Results Among patients with hearing loss in the combined group, the severity of hearing impairment was primarily moderate (65.85%), while that in the non-combined group was mainly mild (49.61%), with differences between the two groups (P < 0.05). In the hearing threshold curve classification, meanwhile, the combined group predominantly showed high-frequency hearing loss (64.63%), with the non-combined group mainly exhibiting low-frequency hearing loss (58.10%), and the differences between the two groups were significant (P < 0.05). …”
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Effectiveness and acceptability of ventilation modifications in healthcare facilities, Liberia 2022–2023 by Ronan F. Arthur, Ashley Styczynski, Krithika Srinivasan, Amos Tandanpolie, Philip Bemah, Ethan Bell, Jason R. Andrews, Tom Baer, Jorge L. Salinas

“… Abstract Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness and acceptability of ventilation interventions in naturally ventilated hospitals in Liberia. Design: Difference-in-differences analysis of pre- and post-air changes per hour of intervention and control spaces. …”
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Effect of air gap on the flow and heat transfer behavior in rectangular channel of fuel plate during bubbling conditions by LIU Chuandong, XU Wei, HE Hui, LIU Xiaojing

“…BackgroundIn case of transient changes or minor accidents during reactor operation, the fuel temperature may temporarily exceed the critical threshold, thus forming bubbles on the fuel plate. …”
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Challenges and support needs among persons with a migration background who use drugs in four European metropolitan cities by Aline Pouille, Clara De Ruysscher, Lena van Selm, Jan van Amsterdam, Wim van den Brink, Machteld Busz, Roberto Perez Gayo, Marios Atzemis, Wouter Vanderplasschen, the SEMID-EU consortium

“…Therefore, they often had to rely on accessible and low-threshold services. Harm reduction services played a significant role in providing support to PMWUD. …”
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Association between initial intravenous fluid volume and the composite outcome of hemodialysis dependence at discharge or in-hospital mortality in inpatients with rhabdomyolysis by Wataru Yajima, Shotaro Aso, Hiroki Matsui, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hideo Yasunaga

“…Propensity-score overlap weighting created balanced cohorts, which did not show significant difference in primary composite outcome between the groups (3.4% vs. 3.9%; risk difference [RD] − 0.4, 95% confidence interval [CI] − 1.8 to 0.9, P = 0.53). …”
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InSAR deformation observation and regional severe earthquake hazard analysis of the 2016 and 2022 strong earthquake activities in Menyuan, Qinghai by CHENG Yan, JIANG Yanan, HOU Zhongjian, ZENG Rui, LUO Huiyuan

“…The focal mechanisms of these earthquakes showed remarkable differences and the epicenters were all located near the Lenglongling fault.   …”
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Tumour budding, MELF-pattern and tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes as possible pathomorphological parameters of the course of endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the uterine corpus by D. A. Zinovkin, I. V. Veyalkin, S. L. Achinovich, I. I. Slepokurova, Yu. A. Lyzikova, A. Farooq

“…Comparison of groups according to the number of TILs revealed statistically significant differences (р = 0.0242). When analyzing survival relative to the threshold value of the number of TILs, statistically significant differences were also observed (HR 3.7; 95 % CI 1.7–7.9; р = 0.021). …”
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Quality evaluation of synthetic CT using a gamma analysis for prostate cancer MR-only radiotherapy by Viktor Babka, Lubos Rehounek, Iva Jakubcová, Igor Sirak, Petr Paluska, Linda Kašaová, Milan Vosmik, Jakub Grepl

“…GA was performed with thresholds of 100 HU and 70 HU for HU differences and 3 mm for DTA to evaluate image quality. …”
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Dynamic change of direction, isometric strength, and psychological readiness in final phase ACLR athletes: an integrated approach by JPJ Stofberg, Mariaan van Aswegen, Mark Kramer

“…Reactive agility improved, with faster left-side decision-making (split 2) from P4 to RTP1 (p = 0.037), while right-side agility remained stable but met the SWC threshold (1.1%). Limited between-group differences in total RAT times and sub-phases suggest ACLR participants regained agility comparable to controls. …”
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